Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said he intends to return to Brazil " This was Bolsonaro's first public announcement of his return to the country..

The far-right politician has been in the US since arriving in Orlando, Florida on December 31 last year, ahead of the inauguration of his rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Brazil's new president..

The former president attended an event at an evangelical church in Florida, which was held entirely in Portuguese for the Brazilian crowd of Bolsonaro supporters living abroad and was organized by the right-wing organization Yes Brazil USA. Bolsonaro was applauded throughout the event.

In recent weeks, discussions have unfolded around when Bolsonaro could return to Brazil, where several investigations are underway against him for possible wrongdoing..

He first traveled to the United States on a diplomatic visa, which expired on January 31.. He was accompanied by a group of presidential advisers and his wife.

Bolsonaro's lawyers recently told Brazilian media that they had applied for a tourist visa to extend his stay in the US..

Amid speculation over Bolsonaro's plans, one of his sons, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, told Brazilian reporters he doesn't know when his father will return..

" I don't know. He is resting,” said the son of the former president.

For the first time in his more than thirty years of political career as an MP and then President, Bolsonaro no longer enjoys the special legal protection that requires any trial to take place in the Supreme Court..

Bolsonaro is the subject of four investigations that were heard in the Supreme Court and were sent to the court of first instance last week.

Inquiries include whether Bolsonaro was involved in inciting supporters to riot on January 8, who broke into government buildings in the country's capital, demanding that his electoral defeat be reversed..

Investigators are also investigating who organized and financed a mass gathering of Bolsonaro supporters who came to the capital from all over Brazil..

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Earlier it was reported that the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil included former President Jair Bolsonaro in the list of defendants in the investigation of the riots in the country's capital, which ended with the storming of government buildings by his supporters..

A close associate of the former president, Senator Marcos Du Val, has turned against him and claims that Bolsonaro and his henchmen tried to "